yogthos

I find the specific dynamic is that you can say anything you want as long as it doesn't translate into material action. That is the line that cannot be crossed.

not only that, but you can have all the freeze peach that you can handle

Exactly, and this is likely going to be the biggest barrier to being absorbed into the US. It would undermine very semblance of identity that Canada was cobbled around.

I think that's probably exactly what it is. He just needs to feel manly.

I very much agree.

The funny part here is that Canada doesn't really have any cultural identity aside from not being the US.

I think Trump wants to go back to more direct imperialism where the US uses hard power to keep its vassals inline instead of using soft and subtle methods. He wants a clear master/slave relationship.

Just like good old colonial days.

Will likely happen in March I expect.

They were doing some of this already, but looks like it's gonna happen on a bigger scale now. This is a good article from 2023 discussing how Russia leveraged the west pushing companies to stop business in Russia to force them to sell assets off for pennies on the dollar. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/17/world/putin-companies-economy-boycott-elites-benefit-ukraine-war.html

I'm not an American, and it's really adorable you think this won't happen in EU. Where do you think the money for all the military budgets is going to come from exactly.

more like they don't care, CEOs are fungible